Gather round, kiddies. (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 07:26 (2420 days ago) @ Claude Errera

In the early 80s this teenager worked in a record store. We did a promotion for the album featuring the song "Pac Man Fever." For the duration of this promotion we set up a table-top Pac Man machine in the front area of our store through an arrangement with a local arcade. It was so popular/profitable that we got two more machines set up in the back on a more permanent basis. Those were Zaxxon and Kick-Man. The latter was pretty good (think a combination of Space Invaders and Tetris featuring a clown on a unicycle and balloons), but my real love was Zaxxon. Several of got into the habit of playing our entire lunch or dinner break, after wolfing down a sandwich in two minutes. I got pretty good at Zaxxon. Our dirty secret was that we'd use a magic marker to put our initials on the quarters we used, and we'd get our money back at the end of the night. Screw you, microtransactions!